Sr. Director, HR NA Specialty

About Acrisure

Acrisure is a global Fintech leader that combines the best of humans and high tech to offer multiple financial products and services to millions of businesses and individual clients. We connect clients to solutions that help them protect and grow what matters, including Insurance, Reinsurance, Cyber Services, Mortgage Origination and more.

Acrisure employs over 19,000 entrepreneurial colleagues in 21 countries and has grown from $38 million to $4.8 billion in revenue in the last twelve years. Our culture is defined by our entrepreneurial spirit and all that comes with it: innovation, client centricity and an indomitable will to win.

Job Summary:

As the Senior Director HRBP, you will be aligned with Acrisure’s North American Specialty business and own the HR strategy for that workforce segment. This senior-level HR position entails tackling the most pressing talent opportunities and challenges at a strategic level and successfully partnering with leadership and colleagues across the HR model to create value for the business. This will require expertise to prioritize strategic issues, collect and analyze data, and work in a team to develop and implement solutions rooted in best practices and relevant to one of the largest groups of wholesalers, binding authorities, and MGAs in North America. The workforce is comprised of people that bring speed, expertise, and personal service-enabled by tech to P&C, Specialty, Life, and Employee Benefits with broad market access. This role reports to the head of HR, Global Markets and International.

Successful candidates are experienced strategists that anticipate critical functions that face severe disruptions, such as underwriting and claims, and can translate into executable talent plans that emphasize technology literacy, relationship building, and critical thinking.

Responsibilities (list of main duties and responsibilities in role):

• Build relationships with business leaders to offer thought leadership on organizational and people-related strategies and execution.
• Understand the business strategy and identify opportunities to increase alignment by helping business leaders identify, prioritize and build organizational capabilities, behaviors, structures and processes.
• Analyzes workforce trends to model and forecast future requirements.
• Diagnose gaps between current and desired organization performance and deploy actions to resolve gaps, including organization redesign, process change, automation, outsourcing, coaching and training, enhancing the quality of leaders and managers, succession planning, etc.
• Review key business performance targets and their related talent implications with business leaders.
• Identify and drive the sharing of best practices across functions to facilitate continuous improvement.
• Lead forums that focus on solving business leaders’ and employees’ pain points to create better HR products faster. 
• Act as a liaison between the HR Business Partners, HR Shared Services, and COEs to ensure services are aligned with internal client needs.
• Manage a team of HR professionals - set clear expectations, provide feedback, conduct performance reviews, and address challenges, as well as foster a positive and productive work environment. 
• Identify and implement performance metrics and analytics to measure the effectiveness of HRBP team and identify improvement areas.
• Establish regular cadence to align the HR team with HR strategy and to clearly map out the expectations and assignments to enable efficient use of resources and capitalize on each group’s unique strengths.
• Analyze processes to identify gaps or redundancies and make recommendations or takes action to streamline, eliminate, automate, and improve existing ways HR work is performed that will effectively support the organization.
• Keep abreast of HR trends, best practices, and emerging technologies to ensure that their strategies and practices are effective and relevant. 
• Navigate organizational change, helping employees adjust to new processes and strategies while minimizing disruption. 

Requirements

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Extensive travel may be required. Candidates should be comfortable with an on-site presence to support collaboration, team leadership, and cross-functional partnership.

Technology Skills:

• Preferred: Experience with Workday.

Other Qualifications:

• Has HR experience working in insurance for wholesale broking and binding, life and health, underwriting, and/or TPA businesses
• Has comprehensive, first-hand experience across most human resource disciplines.
• Able to learn, apply, and navigate human capital issues related to joint venture journeys.
• Can build and consistently execute a talent processes.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Strong consulting and coaching skills.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize actions.
• Ability to tailor messages to different audiences and influence decisions.
• Ability to assess situations accurately and identify risks to the organization.
• Ability to access, interpret and act on relevant data.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Human Resources Management, or a related field; or a recognized equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 10+ years of experience as a HR Business Partner, or comparable role, inclusive of leadership responsibilities.
• 5+ years of client facing experience at the senior leadership level.
• Preferred: Current PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP certification, or equivalent.
• Preferred: Experience in working on human capital issues related to joint ventures.

Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive Compensation
• Industry Leading Healthcare
• Savings and Investments
• Charitable Giving Programs
• Opportunities for Growth
• Parental Leave
• Generous time away

Acrisure is committed to making an impact in our communities by giving back, with millions committed to children’s health with Helen Devos Children’s Hospital and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.

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